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Thomas Henry Wilson & Family Foundation at a glance

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Thomas Henry Wilson & Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$101k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$170kHealth$120kEducation$108kReligion$106kInternational$103kEnvironment$89kHuman Services$41kCivil Rights$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$26,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROOF ABOVE$52,500
DILWORTH CENTER$26,000
ALEXANDER CHILDREN'S HOME$15,000
MYERS PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%KING BAUDOUIN FOUNDATION: $97k → 17%GREEN TURTLE CAY FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: $1k → 18%THE URBAN MINISTRY CENTER: $33k → 10%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 11%HIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%THE WILD FOUNDATION: $35k → 12%DILWORTH CENTER: $30k → 10%DUKE UNIVERSITY: $12k → 11%DILWORTH CENTER: $26k → 10%DILWORTH CENTER: $19k → 10%DILWORTH CENTER: $15k → 10%DILWORTH CENTER: $15k → 10%ALEXANDER CHILDREN'S HOME: $15k → 10%ALEXANDER CHILDREN'S HOME: $15k → 10%ALEXANDER CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 10%MYERS PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $28k → 10%MYERS PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $27k → 10%MYERS PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $10k → 10%MYERS PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
NJ
CO
VA
NC
DC
LA
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$536k · 7 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$536k
$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+25%

Still filing today

57%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • DC
    Dilworth Center for Chemical Dependency
    5× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +12%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University
    2× · 2017–2019 · $63k · revenue +5%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2021 · $32k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • IW
    INTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +12%
  • TU
    THE URBAN MINISTRY CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $33k
  • HP
    HIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +96%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
5
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
6
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education
8
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
The University of TexasTexas a&M Investment Management Company

To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is High Point Regional Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Green Turtle Cay Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA: $72,500 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USARAINFORST TRUST: $53,500 · OtherRAINFORST TRUSTALEXANDER CHILDREN'S HOME: $40,000 · OtherALEXANDER CHILDREN'S HOMEINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP …THE URBAN MINISTRY CENTER: $33,000 · OtherTHE URBAN MINISTRY CENTER+2 more: $1,400 · OtherROOF ABOVE INC: $169,500 · Arts & CultureROOF ABOVE INCDilworth Center for Chemical Dependency: $105,000 · HealthDilworth Center fo…HIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 · HealthHIGH POINT REGIONA…The Trustees of Princeton University: $63,000 · EducationThe Trustees of …DUKE UNIVERSITY: $32,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $12,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATO…+1 more: $500 · EducationMYRIAD USA INC: $96,667 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INCThe Green Turtle Cay Foundation: $6,000 · InternationalThe Green Turtl…SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$235,400Arts & Culture$169,500Health$120,000Education$107,500International$102,667Crime & Legal$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROOF ABOVE INC: $169,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDilworth Center for Chemical Dependency: $105,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $96,667 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $63,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH POINT REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Green Turtle Cay Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thomas Henry Wilson & Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas Henry Wilson & Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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